And the dressmaker pressed a large handkerchief against her handsome nose, savored the last new perfume, and leaned back in her stall magisterially with a faint smile.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
All our positions, real time, a growing world, asserted magisterially, and the beast intellectualism killed absolutely dead!
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Hartopp went back to his daughter's home in a state of great excitement, drinking more wine than usual at dinner, talking more magisterially than he had ever been known to talk, railing quite misanthropically against the world; observing, that Williams had become unsufferably overbearing, and should be pensioned off: in short, casting the whole family into the greatest perplexity to guess what had come to the mild man.
"What Will He Do With It, Book 10."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton